Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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I was at a meeting two years ago in Beijing, and I passed a bunch of women who were marching in a protest. Their signs were probably saying something I wouldn't have agreed with at all. But I was so glad to see women marching. And it's happening all over the world.

Betty Friedan's Popular Quotes

Who knows what women can be when they are finally free to become themselves?

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It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself.

- Betty Friedan

Aging is not "lost youth" but a new stage of opportunity and strength.

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A woman has got to be able to say, and not feel guilty, 'Who am I, and what do I want out of life?' She mustn't feel selfish and neurotic if she wa…

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It is easier to live through someone else than to complete yourself. The freedom to lead and plan your own life is frightening if you have never face…

- Betty Friedan

Getting older is an adventure, not a problem.

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When she stopped conforming to the conventional picture of femininity she finally began to enjoy being a woman.

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The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive.

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If you were very bright and you became head of a department, as I did, of the psychology department, you were encouraged to go on to graduate work. B…

- Betty Friedan